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- ↑ NINA SIEGAL. "NEIGHBORHOOD REPORT: CHELSEA; The Best of New York: The Eighth-Grade Edition", The New York Times , 2000-04-16.
- ↑ "Student Press Initiative (SPI) | Home". Publishspi.org. Retrieved 2010-02-26.
- ↑ Ruth Vinz with Erick Gordon; Bill Lundgren; Juliette LaMontagne; Greg Hamilton (2000). Becoming (Other)wise: Enhancing critical reading perspectives. Portland, Maine: Calendar Island. ISBN 978-1-893056-07-7.
- ↑ Louie, Belinda Y. (2000). "Review of Becoming (Other)wise". Adolescent & Adult Literacy. 44: 293–295. JSTOR 40012189.
- ↑ "Erick Gordon | Teachers College, Columbia University - Academia.edu".
- ↑ Gordon, Erick; McKibbin, Kerry; Vasudevan, Lalitha; Vinz, Ruth "Writing Out of the Unexpected: Narrative Inquiry and the Weight of Small Moments"
- ↑ Erick Gordon. "Raising the Bar for Classroom Publication: Building a Student Press Initiative", English Journal , 2007-01
- ↑ Erick Gordon. "English in the City", English Journal , 2004-09.